Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-07
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

= The Adventists' camp meeting Is in
active operation at Alma.
There are twenty prisoners in the st.
Clair County Jail, and the Sheriff wears a
broad smile.
-Abner Mackay, an inmate of the Tus-
cola County Poor-house, has just received
81, 900 back pension.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made to start the large fax mill in st.
Louis in the near future.
Mayor McCurdy, Of Corunna, has gone
to Mackinac, where he and his family will
rusticate for the summer.
The superintendents Of the different
Sunday -shools at Howell are organizing q
joint effort to suppress, SO far as possible,
the desecration Of Sunday.
Work has just been commenced on the
new city hall at -Corunna. John Harding.
a master builder, took the job at $4,000.
1t will be built of brick and will be a hand
some addition to the other handsome pub
lie buildings.
The Board of Control Of the State
Public School has appointed as Superin-
tendent of the institute Prof. Wesley
Sears, Superintendent OF the Flint City
Schools. He is an educator of acknowl-
edged ability, and will assume his new
duties in July.
While Richard Simmons, prominent
and well-to-do farmer, who lives four miles
south Of North Branch, was at work cut
ting hay, something went wrong with his
moving machine. Mr.. Simmons got down
to adjust it, and while he was between the
wheels the horses backed the machine
upon him, one Of the wheels passing over
his neck, causing paralysis. 1t Is thought
he cannot recover.
Woods camp near Cadillac, met with q
painful accident which cost him one eye.
He and O companion were getting out rail-
road ties. Mr.. Decker stepped about eight
feet away from the tie on which they were
working His companion, in hewing,
struck small hard knot, a small piece Of
which struck Mr.. Decker in the eye, cutting
the ball in two, instantly binding him. He
is being treated at Cadillac. The other
eye, though very weak, will be saved.
The improved pumping machinery for
the tunnel at Port Huron has been received
and work has been begun toward fitting it
up. Mr.. Murphy, general foreman, has
made ON examination of the drift, and finds
everything in good condition, except that
along with the water good deal of clay
had leached in, which is now
being removed. The water and
gas leak in the drift are both
located in the same place, 274 feet in from
the shaft and are both due to the same
cause, a rift in the clay, extending upward
twenty feet to the rock, through which the
river water comes down from above, and
the water comes up from below. After the
water leak was struck and before the gas
drove the workmen out bulk head had
been built across the drift, which was
found intact, and which will now be open
cd to get at the leaks and effectually stop
them. 1t was found that the water leak
had been partially closed by the settling Of
the clay under the pressure from above,
and so little water now comes in that the
leakage of day can be exhausted by the
new fve-inch pump in few minutes.
Work at driving the drift is now in prog.
ress.
The Salary and Allowance Division of
the Postoffice Department completed the
adjustment of the salaries of postmasters
under the law of the fiscal year beginning
July /, 1887. The salaries for the post
masters are given below. The first column
is the salary for the current year; the sec-
ond column is the salary for the next fiscal
year:
| 200 o~o